"This is just a major, major storm for really most of the big cities along the I-95 corridor," said senior Accuweather meteorologist Alan Reppert. "We've gotten record snowfalls from Virginia all the way to New York City."

Blizzard warnings remained in effect through Saturday night for more than 35 million people from northern Virginia to Massachusetts.

A floating dock sits on the sidewalk following flooding during Saturday's blizzard in Stone Harbor, N.J. (Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images)

By the time the storm moves off the coast Sunday, one in seven Americans from Kentucky to Connecticut could be confronted with at least half a foot of snow, forecasters said.

In Washington, adults and children braved blizzard conditions to sled down snowy streets. The landscape around the Capitol was dotted with sledders, while President Obama hunkered down at the White House.

And video showed one of the four pandas at the Smithsonian National Zoo frolicking in the snow.

But the Duquesne University men's basketball team was having far less fun as they were trapped in the snow on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

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Skiers take photos on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

The Pittsburgh-area team was returning home from a Friday win against George Mason University in Virginia.

The bus carrying the Temple University women's gymnastics team was also among the more than 500 vehicles stranded on the snow-covered Pennsylvania Turnpike. The team's coach, Umme Salim-Beasley, said National Guard members were handing out military rations.

"They are one by one trying to plow out vehicles and trying to get them moving," she said.

Hundreds of vacationers on their way home from a Caribbean cruise were celebrating the storm after it extended their trip by a day. The Royal Caribbean International's Grandeur of the Seas was scheduled to return to a Baltimore port Sunday.

But transportation officials said the port wouldn't be ready in time.

Traffic is at a standstill on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Bedford, Pa. The Duquesne men's basketball team and Temple University's women's gymnastics team are stuck on the Turnpike due to treacherous weather conditions. (Michael Watkins/AP)

"I was not totally surprised and, frankly, happy to be delayed," New Jersey resident Meg Ryan told the Associated Press.

The storm was blamed for six deaths in North Carolina, including a 4-year-old boy killed in a car crash in Iredell County.

Flood waters poured into several New Jersey coastal towns including Point Pleasant, Margate and Wildwood.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blamed the "selfish" homeowners who are holding up dune projects along the coast.

"This is certainly not Superstorm Sandy and those streets were already flooded this morning," Christie said.